Meet the dudes who walked 2200 kilometres through the Arctic, alone
A decade ago, two young men barely out of their teens completed the longest unsupported Arctic ski expedition in history. This is the story of Alex Hibbert and George Bullard.
By the mid-noughties, the polar expedition market was saturated.
The planet’s most extreme latitudes had been thoroughly explored, and the likelihood of finding funding or sponsorship for a major journey was slim.
Remarkably, this hadn’t deterred Alex Hibbert, an ambitious Oxford University student, who had his sights set on a big polar undertaking.
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